The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-01-19


When fruit trees are sprayed with ar
senical solutions, to operate against the
coddling moth, curculio, etc., do it early
enough in the season to avoid poisoning
the fruit.
When horse is taken into the stable,
tired, muddy and sweaty, he ought to
stand to hay at first, be gently bathed IN
warm water and then rubbed with cloths
till thoroughly dry.
A good agency for keeping the air OF
the cellar sweet and wholesome Is white
wash made of good white lime and water
only. Lime in whitewash greatly pro-
notes the complete oxidation of eft1uvia
in the cellar air.
After frost has pinched the grasses
they are no longer sufficient for cattle
that must be kept in good flesh, not for
COWS giving milk. Add enough grain,
and the grass will serve much better to
maintain good condition.
In preparing food for stock, such as
cooked vegetables, chopped feed, ETC.,
always season with salt. Every animal
Graves, and must have, certain amount
of saline matter introduced into its sys-
tenn to enable it to thrive.
Green food, well-seasoned meat,
pleuty of water, dry dust, broken bones,
gravel and egg shells, crushed up fine,
meal wet with warm dish water in the
morning, sour milk, etc are good for
causing hens to lay in winter time.
No kind of farm stock cost so little or
pays so large proportionate profit as sow
pigs kept until they have their first litter
of pigs. A SOW due to farrow in March
or April is always salable at handsome
advance on her value for making pork.
Guernsey grades are yearly growing
more popular among dairymen and farm
ers, and their merits make them worthy
of attention. There are but few essen
tial differences among the Guernseys,
Jerseys and Alderneys-they all come
from the same group of islands.
In no other country in the world are
the feathers of the barnyard fowls so
recklessly wasted as our own. In France
no part of the fowl is wasted, unless,
perhaps, it be the intestines. The feet
and heads are used at the chenper rest
aurants to give body to their soups, etc.
1t is advised, says the Cincinnati
Commercial, not to allow peach trees to
bear fruit until after the third year. We
think it better to allow them to bear
whenever they can, and to plant young
trees every spring to take the places of
those killed by frost, accidents or care
lessness.
Seed corn intended for next season
should be thoroughly dried or it will not
answer. If perfectly dry it will endure
very severe cold, but If containing much
water in its composition the extremely
cold weather will injure the germ. Dry
it we'll, and hang it up in dry place of
even temperature.
A new luxury in the vegetable line is
now on the market. 1t is called the
Spanish odorless onion; is imported from
Spain; varies in size from six to twelve
inches. and in looks closely resembles
the ordinary onion. They are sweet, and
can be eaten as apples at any times with
little fear of an offensive breath.
By blowing under crop when it is
full of sap and water it very rapidly de-
GAYS and enriches the soil, while if it is
not plowed until the plant has become
matured it will have tendency to cure
and turn into straw, and it will conse-
ouently take it long while to sufficiently
decay to become fertilizer and be in a
condition to be taken up by the soil.
Old turkeys and old geese are deemed
worth much more as breeders on the
farm than young ones. We once saw
goose which had successfully led forth a
large Matching of young from the same
hollow sycamore for over thirty years.
She had 1.-The hang of the barn." Ducks
are good till three years old; turkey
is in her prime at five, and goose at
twenty.
To make superior hams and bacon,
says Colman's Rural, corn should be
mixed with oats or barley, or perhaps
rye might answer, at the rate of one-half
to a third of one of the latter to the
former, and ground thus together. Such
feed increases the proportion of tender,
Juicy lean streaking the fat, which IS
essential to produce fine quality OF
hams and bacon.
The old-fashioned, sweet-scented pot
evergreen, known as daphne indica, is
still everywhere popular, though as a
general thing it is kept too warm. A
Temperature of from fortY-five to fifty
five degrees is enough for it. 1t is an
admirable room plant or tor cool conserv-
atories. They are natives of China and
require about the same temperature as
camellia.
In filling box with ordinary house
plants, it is better to have the plants in
pots, for then the box is perfect at COM
mencement, and will be more likely to
remain so. BY being plunged in earth
they are not liable to suffer from
drought, and will not grow 80 fast as to
"draw up" and become unsightly. The
plants being root-bound will be far more
prolific with bloom.
A window box can be filled with
plants that will thrive without sunshine,
and afford vast amount of pleasure.
If palms cannot be employed, snall ev.
ergreens such as dwarf arbor vitr, can
be employed to good advantage. Ferns
can be used with these, and form a
beautiful combination. If climber is
desirable, the English ivy will fill the
place. For the sunny window there are
many other plants than those we have
mentioned, which can be used to good
advantage. Let the box be filled with
Tom Thumb nasturtiums, with a tall
growth at each end to run up the win
dow cases, and beautiful effect will be
produced.